President Trump is nothing if not forthright. In this week’s G7 summit, we have seen that facet of his personality time and again, from the moment he walked into a room full of national leaders and announced: “I’m the boss,” as my colleague Ben Smith reported earlier.
Choose your fighter. pic.twitter.com/14wbE0BYFU
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 17, 2026
He’s made some other comments, too, in typically direct Trump fashion. Here are a few highlights.
First, on the Iran deal:
Trump on his deal with Iran: “If we didn’t do this deal, we could’ve dropped more bombs for another three weeks, two weeks, four weeks, two years. You would never have the Hormuz Strait open. You would never have success. Your market, instead of going up at levels nobody’s ever… pic.twitter.com/RZH9UErL4Z
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 17, 2026
The president said:
But, if we didn’t do this deal, we could have dropped more bombs for another three weeks, two weeks, four weeks, two years. You would never have the Hormuz Strait open. You would never have success; your market would have been, instead of going up at levels that nobody has ever seen before, would go down at levels that nobody ever saw before. Maybe except for 1929 or whatever. Then you know, all the tough guys, tough guys don’t realize that this wasn’t a three-month deal; this was years in the making.
Key point here: The problem with Iran didn’t start with the onset of Operation Epic Fury. Iran has been, since 1979, a major trouble spot. The Islamic Republic has been a regional problem and a global problem, the world’s foremost state sponsor of Islamic terrorism. The regime has the blood of thousands on their hands, and it took this decision to do something about it to get us to even where we are now. To paraphrase President Franklin Roosevelt, they asked for it, and now they are getting it.
President Trump also took a shot at the Obama administration’s deal with Iran:
Trump FLAYS Obama for his disastrous deal with Iran:
“They were gonna take out the entire Middle East, including Israel. And if they had a nuclear weapon they would’ve used it within moments after getting it.
So I made it very tough for them when I terminated the Barrack… pic.twitter.com/F7MQlBkalr
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 17, 2026
Here, the president said:
They (Iran) were going to take out the entire Middle East, including Israel. And if they had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it, within moments after getting it. So, I made it very tough for them when I terminated the Barack Hussein Obama catastrophe. JCPOA, one of the worst deals… NAFTA might have been worse, but was worse economically. This deal was really dangerous, what he did. He gave them everything, including a lot of money, which we don’t give them, by the way. Just in case you have any questions. We’ll be giving this out so you can read it. You can see. And it’s a memorandum of understanding. If it doesn’t get done in 60 days, it’s alright, we can go back to bombing. I don’t want to do that, because it’s no good. We might have to. Because we’re never going to let them have a nuclear weapon. But they’ve agreed not to, and you’ll see that very clearly in the agreement.
Again, a key point: The military campaign couldn’t go on forever. Weapons stocks aren’t a cornucopia, for one thing. A deal of some kind was inevitable, and while it would have been better to see an entirely new regime in Tehran, preferably one selected by the Iranian people in a clean, free, honest election, this would appear to be the deal we can get now, and remember, we haven’t yet seen the details of that deal.
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Finally, President Trump laid a smackdown on former President Biden:
Trump trashes Joe Biden: “We had a man that should’ve never been president. A man that would walk up to a podium once every year and they’d ask him ‘What flavor ice cream do you like?’” pic.twitter.com/W6pRSbQGqJ
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) June 17, 2026
Here, the president said:
(The USA) is more respected as a country right now than I think we ever have been. And we were a laughingstock two years ago. They would laugh at us. We had a man that should have never been there, you know that. A man that would walk up to a podium once every year, and they’d ask him, “What flavor ice cream do you like?” “I like vanilla.” Then he’d try to find the stairs, which he couldn’t find most of the time, and he’d leave. This is very unfair reporting. And then you said that you didn’t know about that. You didn’t know there was something wrong. We can never let that happen to our country again.
That much is certain, and the only thing positive we can say about the Biden administration is that, in 2024, befuddled old Joe’s understudy proved to be so abrasive, so inarticulate, and so self-centered that she lost disastrously, preventing four more years of incompetent leadership from the Oval Office.
For now, America is back, and President Trump is letting the international community know that, in no uncertain terms.
Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump and his administration’s bold leadership, we are respected on the world stage, and our enemies are being put on notice.
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